Some snippets: With no carrier backing, the Nokia N80 is expensive. Performance is also a bit sluggish when switching between apps. Though the form factor is compact, it’s on the thicker side, so it’ll make for a tight fit in a pants pocket. For the most part, the controls are easy to use, but the…
Archives for January 2007
Darla Mack is getting a Nokia N95 for review this week: She wants to answer your questions
The Mobile Diva is getting an N95 on her doorstep this week. She wants to answer your questions about the device. Either leave her comment or send an email. Here are 10 things I want to know Darla: How well does the GPS work inside your house? Go outside with the phone off, turn it…
Nokia Web Browser design guide
Last month we posted information about Forum Nokia’s document – S60 Web Browser product description. Now they started the guide titled “The Nokia Web Browser – Delivering the full Web experience”, which is set to bring us the series of articles on the subject. The first one is already live, and deals with browser features…
Nokia licences Eyeball AnyFirewall Engine to help VoIP users get their calls thru
Eyeball, the VoIP Call Completionâ„¢ company, today released AnyFirewallâ„¢ Engine, a firewall and NAT traversal SDK that incorporates the most comprehensive implementation of STUN, TURN and ICE. Together with AnyFirewall Server, AnyFirewall Engine ensures 100% seamless call completion for VoIP phones, services and applications. The growth of the Internet has created a global shortage of…
Maemo Development VMware Appliance: Making development on the N800 that much easier
A VMware appliance built on Ubuntu which allows for easy Nokia N800 Internet Tablet console and GUI development, including debugging in the nested Xephyr X server is available. This appliance is targeted at the N800’s Maemo Bora 3.0 platform. This is of particular interest to developers who are thinking about developing for the N800 or…
Video: Quick demo of the Nokia 7373
Direct link to video Via: TechEBlog I don’t care if the phone is pink, if she comes with it I’ll proudly purchase one. UPDATE: She has an entire YouTube channel, 31 total videos! Check out her Nokia 8800 demo.
Nokia launches “Context, Content and Community” project
Joe McCarthy’s blog post certainly has me pumped: We recently posted an external web page for the Context, Content and Community project I’m working on (and playing with) in collaboration with some of my new colleagues here at Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto. This is, by definition (or at least by name), a rather broad…
Former Apple Newton developer gives excellent critique of the Nokia N800 UI
Before I even get to the subject of this post I have one request: Dear Nokia: I recommend that Mr. Luke’s essay be sent to anyone working on Maemo. Who is Sean Luke? I’m a former spare-time Newton Messagepad user and software developer. I wrote, among other things, the Waba for the Newton Java virtual…
NTT DoCoMo's FOMA D703i
As promised, we are starting to showcase one FOMA a day from the recently announced NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA handset pack. Today we present you D703i, which is manufactured by Mitsubishi and is the thinness candybar form factor handset in Japan. It’s dimensions are impressive – the D703i measures 130×49×9.9 mm, and weighs only 83g. Among…
Nokia N73 Business Card Reader released
Just after we’ve announced Nokia Team Suite 1.0, Nokia silently released yet another free application. This time it’s their Nokia Business Card Reader, which allows you to scan a business card using the phone’s built-in camera and read the information from the card. According to Darla Mack, who tested this application, at the moment Nokia…